Protective effects of parental monitoring of children's media use a prospective study

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 479-484

  Gentile, Douglas A ^a   Reimer, Rachel A ^b   Nathanson, Amy I ^c   Walsh, David A ^d   Eisenmann, Joey C ^e  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Mind Positive Parenting   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; OBESITY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL MONITORING; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TEACHER; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; MALE; MINNESOTA; PARENTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84900412110     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.146     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. American Academy of Pediatrics, Council on Communications and Media. Children, adolescents, and the media. Pediatrics. 2013;132(5):958-961. doi:10.1542/peds.2013-2656.
2. Sisson SB, Church TS, Martin CK, et al. Profiles of sedentary behavior in children and adolescents: the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001-2006. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2009;4(4):353-359.
3. Roberts DF, Foehr UG, Rideout VJ, Brodie MB. Kids & the Media at the NewMillennium. Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation; 1999.
4. Rideout V, ed. GenerationM2: Media in the Lives of 8-to 18-Year-olds. Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation; 2010.
5. Anderson DR, Huston AC, Schmitt KL, Linebarger DL,Wright JC. Early childhood television viewing and adolescent behavior: the recontact study. Monogr Soc Res Child Dev. 2001;66(1):I-VIII, 1-147.
6. Pagani LS, Fitzpatrick C, Barnett TA, Dubow E. Prospective associations between early childhood television exposure and academic, psychosocial, and physical well-being by middle childhood. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164(5):425-431.
7. Sisson SB, Broyles ST, Baker BL, Katzmarzyk PT. Screen time, physical activity, and overweight in U.S. youth: national survey of children's health 2003. J Adolesc Health. 2010;47(3):309-311.
8. Lipsky LM, Iannotti RJ. Associations of television viewing with eating behaviors in the 2009 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;166(5):465-472.
9. Cain N, Gradisar M. Electronic media use and sleep in school-Aged children and adolescents: a review. Sleep Med. 2010;11(8):735-742.
10. Olds T, Ridley K, Dollman J. Screenieboppers and extreme screenies: the place of screen time in the time budgets of 10-13 year-old Australian children.Aust N Z J Public Health. 2006;30(2):137-142.
11. Christakis DA, Zimmerman FJ, DiGiuseppe DL, McCarty CA. Early television exposure and subsequent attentional problems in children. Pediatrics. 2004;113(4):708-713.
12. Mistry KB, Minkovitz CS, Strobino DM, Borzekowski DL. Children's television exposure and behavioral and social outcomes at 5.5 years: does timing of exposure matter? Pediatrics. 2007;120(4):762-769.
13. Cummings HM, Vandewater EA. Relation of adolescent video game play to time spent in other activities. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(7):684-689.
14. Wiecha JL, Sobol AM, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL. Household television access: associations with screen time, reading, and homework among youth. Ambul Pediatr. 2001;1(5):244-251.
15. Anderson CA, Bushman BJ. Human aggression. Annu Rev Psychol. 2002;53(1):27-51.
16. Gentile DA, Anderson CA, Yukawa S, et al. The effects of prosocial video games on prosocial behaviors: international evidence from correlational, longitudinal, and experimental studies. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2009;35(6):752-763.
17. Richards R, McGee R, Williams SM,Welch D, Hancox RJ. Adolescent screen time and attachment to parents and peers. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164(3):258-262.
18. Carson V, PickettW, Janssen I. Screen time and risk behaviors in 10-to 16-year-old Canadian youth. Prev Med. 2011;52(2):99-103.
19. Robertson LA,McAnally HM, Hancox RJ. Childhood and adolescent television viewing and antisocial behavior in early adulthood. Pediatrics. 2013;131(3):439-446.
20. Strasburger VC, Grossman D. How many more Columbines? what can pediatricians do about school and media violence? Pediatr Ann. 2001;30(2):87-94.
21. Sharif I, Sargent JD. Association between television, movie, and video game exposure and school performance. Pediatrics. 2006;118(4):e1061-e1070.
22. Nathanson AI. Factual and evaluative approaches to modifying children's responses to violent television. J Commun. 2004;54(2):321-336. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.tb02631.x.
23. Nathanson AI, Cantor J. Reducing the aggression-promoting effect of violent cartoons by increasing children's fictional involvement with the victim: a study of active mediation. J Broadcast Electron Media. 2000;44(1):125-142. doi:10.1207/s15506878jobem4401-9.
24. Carlson SA, Fulton JE, Lee SM, Foley JT, Heitzler C, Huhman M. Influence of limit-setting and participation in physical activity on youth screen time. Pediatrics. 2010;126(1):e89-e96.
25. Nathanson AI. Identifying and explaining the relationship between parental mediation and children's aggression. Communic Res. 1999;26:124-143. doi:10.1177/009365099026002002.
26. Nikken P, Jansz J. Parental mediation of children's videogame playing: a comparison of the reports by parents and children. Learn Media Technol. 2006;31(2):181-202. doi:10.1080/17439880600756803.
27. Eisenmann JC, Gentile DA,Welk GJ, et al. Switch: rationale, design, and implementation of a community, school, and family-based intervention to modify behaviors related to childhood obesity. BMC Public Health. 2008;8:223.
28. Gentile DA,Welk G, Eisenmann JC, et al. Evaluation of a multiple ecological level child obesity prevention program: Switch what you do, view, and chew. BMC Med. 2009;7:49.
29. Anderson CA, Gentile DA, Buckley KE. Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2007.
30. Gentile DA, Oberg C, Sherwood NE, Story M, Walsh DA, Hogan M; American Academy of Pediatrics.Well-child visits in the video age: pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidelines for children's media use. Pediatrics. 2004;114(5):1235-1241.
31. Gentile DA, Coyne S,Walsh DA. Media violence, physical aggression, and relational aggression in school age children: a short-term longitudinal study. Aggress Behav. 2011;37(2):193-206.
32. Busching R, Gentile DA, Krahe B, et al. Testing the reliability and validity of different measures of violent video game use in the USA, Singapore, and Germany. Psychol Pop Media Cult. In press.
33. Malina RM, Katzmarzyk PT. Validity of the body mass index as an indicator of the risk and presence of overweight in adolescents. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999;70(1):131S-136S.
34. Russell DW, Kahn JH, Spoth R, Altmaier EM. Analyzing data from experimental studies: a latent variable structural equation modeling approach. J Couns Psychol. 1998;45(1):18-29.
35. Gentile DA, Nathanson AI, Rasmussen ER, Reimer RA,Walsh DA. Do you see what I see? parent and child reports of parental monitoring of media. FamRelat. 2012;61(3):470-487. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00709.x.
36. SlaterMD, Henry KL, Swaim RC, Anderson LL. Violent media content and aggressiveness in adolescents: a downward spiral model. Communic Res. 2003;30(6):713-736. doi:10.1177/0093650203258281.